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Authored by kib on Dec 8 2018, 11:26 PM.
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Bootstacks are unused after APs executed sched_throw() in init_secondary_tail() and started executing on proper idle thread stack.
Add sysinit that detects that the idle thread for each CPU was scheduled at least once, and free corresponding bootstack.

I believe that slight addition of the code (~200 bytes) is worth it, because even on typical small modern desktop CPU we leak 128K of memory otherwise (4 pages x 8 threads).

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I also think it is worth it.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 10 2018, 7:01 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.